The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a $307,000 grant to the research division of the Oklahoma Historical Society as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program.
The grant will be used to digitize 100,000 pages of Oklahoma newspapers that will reflect the state’s political, cultural and economic history. The project is a partnership with the University of North Texas and the Oklahoma Press Association.
“The titles selected will reflect the state’s political, cultural and economic history, span Oklahoma regionally and cover the mid-nineteenth to the early 20th century time period,” said Chad Williams, deputy director of research.
“The Oklahoma Historical Society has the collections and knowledge of Oklahoma newspapers that, when coupled with The University of North Texas experience in large-scale digital conversion projects, brings the skill to manage a challenging project such as this,” said Williams.
“The Oklahoma Press Association will play an important part in this project as well. In 1893 the Territorial Press Association formed the historical society to collect and preserve the territories newspapers. That is how our newspaper collection began.”
The National Digital Newspaper Program represents a major effort to digitize millions of microfilmed pages of historically significant newspapers and make them available in a searchable online database. Through this program, the National Endowment for the Humanities intends to fund the digitization of historically significant newspapers from all 50 states and U.S. territories published between 1836 and 1922. Currently NDNP has 22 state partners. The most recent additions—Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Montana, Oklahoma, Oregon and South Carolina—just received grant awards for their projects and joined the program in June 2009.
The Oklahoma Historical Society microfilm collection contains well over 50,000 rolls of film. The Society microfilms all newspapers published in the state of Oklahoma in a continuing effort to collect, preserve and share the state’s wonderful and diverse history.
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The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a $307,000 grant to the research division of the Oklahoma Historical Society as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program.
The grant will be used to digitize 100,000 pages of Oklahoma newspapers that will reflect the state’s political, cultural and economic history. The project is a partnership with the University of North Texas and the Oklahoma Press Association.
“The titles selected will reflect the state’s political, cultural and economic history, span Oklahoma regionally and cover the mid-nineteenth to the early 20th century time period,” said Chad Williams, deputy director of research.
“The Oklahoma Historical Society has the collections and knowledge of Oklahoma newspapers that, when coupled with The University of North Texas experience in large-scale digital conversion projects, brings the skill to manage a challenging project such as this,” said Williams.
“The Oklahoma Press Association will play an important part in this project as well. In 1893 the Territorial Press Association formed the historical society to collect and preserve the territories newspapers. That is how our newspaper collection began.”
The National Digital Newspaper Program represents a major effort to digitize millions of microfilmed pages of historically significant newspapers and make them available in a searchable online database. Through this program, the National Endowment for the Humanities intends to fund the digitization of historically significant newspapers from all 50 states and U.S. territories published between 1836 and 1922. Currently NDNP has 22 state partners. The most recent additions—Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Montana, Oklahoma, Oregon and South Carolina—just received grant awards for their projects and joined the program in June 2009.
The Oklahoma Historical Society microfilm collection contains well over 50,000 rolls of film. The Society microfilms all newspapers published in the state of Oklahoma in a continuing effort to collect, preserve and share the state’s wonderful and diverse history.
